Confirmation of Animal Services Director – Gary Herrero – Annual Salary of $130,000.00
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approve
DispositionApproved
Approved Staff’s recommendation with Commissioner Yeager absent from the vote.
The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Dec 9, 2025
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Dec 9, 2025
The published PDF, as served by the county. This item is one entry in it.
This case, across meetings
PS-26-0003 in full →Heard once. PS-26-0003 appears on no other agenda in the archive.
- Dec 9, 2025BoardR75▶Approvedthis item
What was said
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Now we'll go back to uh Mike, should we go back to R75 now? Please, sir. Okay. R 75. Confirmation of animal service director, Gary.
Hi, Gary. I don't know. Poor Gary, he's heard all those acolyloids from Mike. He's like probably shivering. I'm glad he's still here.
We did a nationwide search. We really did. And and we were very lucky to find Gary Herrero. He comes to us from Sumpner County. Um he's got a wealth of knowledge in animal uh services. He's been Been a K-9. He's with the Sheriff Department for many years in K-9. And a fun fact, in his earlier days, you know, Medieval Manor, the jousters, he was one of them. So he knows all about the horses, too. So I think he's gonna fit right into our culture. Um, Gary
holds a um bachelor's degree in business administration for Columbia Southern University, and guess what? He just got his master's degree this week. So we're very proud of him on that. And um I'm just so excited. I I think he this is what he said in the interview. He said, you know, coming to Pasco County is my NFL. We are the NFL guys, right? So that sold me right there. So Gary, um Hopefully the Commissioner will respectfully I'm asking your permission to please confirm.
Mr. Gary Herrera.
Okay. Well well Chairman's gotta move up from paintball. Just saying team, if you're sore from paintball Uh no I'm just
Uh second for that
right here.
Aye, I have a motion to a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Congratulations. Welcome.
Thank you, and uh uh thank you for this opportunity. I'm looking forward to stepping into the role of Animal Services Director. I'm looking forward to serving this community and uh keep supporting the staff, volunteers, rescue partners, and all the residents that care about the animals for this county. My commitment is very simple and that's to keep on building to everything that this great man has built. and to keep progressing the animal services industry forward. And most of all is to run an
animal services that you guys and the Pasco County is proud of. So thank you for your trust and I'm ready to get to work. All right. Thank you.
That's my right.